[A-List] America Facing Depression and Bankruptcy

[Todd Boyle]

Nadja asked,

>Todd and others,
>What can we do on a real, practical level?

I want everybody to quit their jobs, spend down their savings and do 
everything possible to be comfortable, be housed and fed, without 
working or contributing to "production" in any way.   This recognizes 
the historic crisis of overproduction caused by the industrial and 
technological revolution.   We pull the plug.  We walk away from the 
machinery, until "production" is much lower.  Like, 75% lower.

The "work ethic" is unethical, in a totalitarian suicide economy.

We should mooch.   We draw food stamps.  40 million Americans are 
already on food stamps, up from 20 million in 2007.

Be the poster child the Republicans absolutely loathe.   Refuse to 
work, stop taking showers, sit around the neighborhood talking with 
their kids and their wives, while they are working.   Spread leftist 
ideas, atheist ideas, ideas like legalizing marijuana.

This strategy of quitting work is super-sustainable and green since 
it automatically reduces your consumption.  It also totally cuts the 
tax revenue going to soldiers and weapons.   It also gives you 100% 
free time to do things that are actually healing and sustainable for 
yourself and your neighbors.  such as sitting round the streets and 
parks, talking with teenagers and the other slackers.

This only requires mental adjustment, it's not hard or painful in the 
physical sense.   There are many examples both domestically, and 
abroad such as sadhus in India, buddhist monks in tibet, burma, 
etc.etc. who are actually honored for their choice, and fed and cared 
for to some extent by their societies. Witness for example, popular 
backlash against France's abuse of its Roma population.   Similarly 
Tent Cities here in Seattle.  Our mayor got unhorsed, after abuses of 
the homeless population.

We do every gimmick we can think of to stay in housing, having no 
money.  Eventually, you lose the housing.  You get used to living in 
a truck or couch surfing.  There's always tent city.  Ultimately, 
there's always some sort of shelter.  You don't obsess on 
shelter.  It's not worth the price of mental and physical enslavement 
in a totalitarian suicide economy.  You begin to understand where the 
monks and sadhus and gypsies are coming from.  Why they do that.

Todd  
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